No Links for the Time Being, Please
May 1st, 2006
Just a note: the current spam attack is prolonged enough that I’m getting tired of moderating the few that get through the blog’s usual defenses. So, for the moment, I’m setting the blocking software so that active links cannot be posted in comments–that is, you can’t use the “a href” tag. You can, of course, simply paste URLs in comments without the link tags, so they don’t become a link. I’ll set it back to accepting active HTML links when the spam attack dies off. Thanks for your patience.
I would think that is ok, provided folks can do things like
http://www.cnn.com
and have it not be active, which is easy enough to do. it would be nice if you stripped out the href and converted to non link text.